Polywords

Rice

Make as many words as you can from just nine letters. Can you beat our score?

© Tomofumi Sato, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0.

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Rice

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The view west from Tamayama across the Hachimantai Plateau, looking across rice fields toward Mt Iwate some three hundred miles north of Tokyo, on Honshu island in Japan.

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Introduction

A Polyword is a game with words and letters. Make words of four letters or more from the letters of a nine-letter word, using each letter only once. Include the highlighted letter in every word you make. Can you beat our score?

Tap on any letter to use it for your word. Remember to include the highlighted letter. To change the highlighted letter and get different words, click here.

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chic chin chine chlorine choc choice choicer choir choleric chore chronic chronicle cinch cine circle clench cleric cliche clinch clincher cloche clone coil coin coir colic conch conchie cone core corn cornice crone echo enrich enrol heir hero heroic heroin heron hire hole holier hone horn icon inch iron lech lice lichen lien line liner lino lion lire loch loci loin lone loner lore nice nicer niche nori ochre once recoil recon rein relic rhino rice rich rile roil role
chlorine chronic circle cliche recoil enrich heroic heroin clinch cleric clench choice holier loner enrol crone nicer heron liner clone choir chore relic colic rice lone loch lion lore rich nice rile once rein chic hero coil coin cone core corn echo heir chin line hire hole hone horn icon inch iron lice role
chic chin chine chlorine choc choice choicer choir choleric chore chronic chronicle cinch cine circle clench cleric cliche clinch clincher cloche clone coil coin coir colic conch conchie cone core corn cornice crone echo enrich enrol heir hero heroic heroin heron hire hole holier hone horn icon inch iron lech lice lichen lien line liner lino lion lire loch loci loin lone loner lore nice nicer niche nori ochre once recoil recon rein relic rhino rice rich rile roil role

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Practice

Spinners Find in Think and Speak

For each group of words, compose a sentence that uses all three. You can use any form of the word: for example, cat → cats, go → went, or quick → quickly, though neigh → neighbour is stretching it a bit.

This exercise uses words found in the accompanying puzzle.

1 Chlorine. Circle. Cliche.

2 Heroin. Hire. Rein.

3 Colic. Hole. Lone.

Variations: 1. include direct and indirect speech 2. include one or more of these words: although, because, despite, either/or, if, unless, until, when, whether, which, who 3. use negatives (not, isn’t, neither/nor, never, nobody etc.)

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